WEBVTT NT. DIANE: THE MAN BEHIND THE ICEBUCKET CHALLENGE IS BACK HERE ATFENW DONATING THE ICE BUCKETFROM THE INSPIRATIONAL CHALLENGEOF THE STADIUM FOR THE BASEBALLHALL OF FAME.THEY WERE HERE TO DONAT AND HEWAS ON THE BOSTON COLLEGEBASEBALL TEAM ALONG WITH HISSUNGLASSES HE WORE THREE YEARSAGO WHICH RAISED MORE THAN $100MILLION FOR ALS RESEARCH.HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ALS IN2012 >> COOPERSTOWN IS A PLACE ILISTEN TO.TELL ME I HAD TO GET IN THE CARAN DRIVE FOUR HOURS BECAUSE HEWANTED TO GO TO THE HALL OFFAME.YOU ARE GOING TO THE HALL OFFAME, YOU ARE GOING TO THE HALLOF FAME.ONE OF THE MOST UNBELIEVABLEWAYS POSSIBLE.DIANE: A SPOKESPERSON SAID THEYASKE HER TO DONATE THE ITEMS SOTHEY CAN SHARE.>> WE TELL THE STORIES OFBASEBALL AND THE STORIES OFAMERICAN SOCIETY AND HISTORY.ONE STORY WE NEED TO BE ABLE TOTELL IS BASEBALL AND ITSCONNECTIONS TO ALS.WAY BACK TO LOU GEHRIG'S, SOMANY TIES BETWEEN BASEBALL ANDTHE DISEASE.

The Massachusetts man behind the success of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge will now have a spot in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Beverly native Pete Frates will be meeting officials Saturday at Fenway Park to donate items to put on display in the museum in Cooperstown.

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The bucket Frates used during his Ice Bucket Challenge at Fenway Park in 2014 and the glove he used as captain of the Boston College baseball team will be presented to officials at the event.

"Cooperstown is a place that I'd listen to a 3-year-old, 4-year-old, 5-year-old, tell me that I had to get in the car and drive 5 hours from Beverly, Massachusetts because he wanted to go the Hall of Fame," said Nancy Frates, the mother of Pete Frates. "Well Pete, you're going to the Hall of Fame, and you're going to the Hall of Fame in one of the most unbelievable ways possible."

A spokesperson for the Baseball Hall of Fame asked the Frates family to donate the items to share Pete's legacy.

"One story that we need to be able to tell is baseball and its connections to the disease, ALS," said Jon Shestakofsky, spokesman for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. "Way back to Lou Gehrig, there are so many ties between baseball and the disease."

The Ice Bucket Challenge went viral on social media and has become a popular way to raise funds and awareness for ALS research.